the way
It
was a long way. The shadow of childhood behind.
The yellow stubble-fields were in flames and the air
Filled with smell of burnt bread. But the windows
Were empty. The hearths were not in but out -
In this burnt down field of wheat.
It
was a long way. Unvisited my native house
Stayed. Lost in the dream of constant expectation.
And me - with my senses learned what was ever known.
And lived through all my life that which all before me
Have lived through to die.
I
was so long going away. Not knowing
That mystery is not learning but experience.
And that the way back is still unknown
Like the one you go away. That signs are recognized
Only through pain. And often going back from pain
In impossible.
I
was long going. Absorbed in the way
Beyond the attachments of my time.
With fog in the eyes I grasped for breath but went on
To read the future in the colors
Which I wanted to be my present.
And
afterwards everything turned into a circle of colors,
Of ways still more unknown and untraveled,
Of all the times of this short life where
I stayed for long.
And the shadow of my childhood melted.
While the horizon before my eyes sank down
With the color of burnt stubble-fields.
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